OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (CROSBY DALY.) 



held pastorates in New York and New Rochelle. 

 A few years ago he gave up pastoral work and 

 applied himself wholly to his inventions. He was 

 a steam specialist. He received about 15 patents, 

 covering an automatic pump governor and re- 

 ceiver, balance steam traps and valves, high- and 

 low-pressure boiler feeders, and improvements and 

 new devices used in electrical construction. 



Crosby, Peirce, naval oflicer. born near Ches- 

 ter, Pa., Jan. 16, 1823: died in Washington, D. C., 

 June 15, 1899. He was appointed a midshipman 

 in the navy, June 5, 1838; was promoted passed 

 midshipman. May 20, 1844; master, Nov. 4, 1852; 

 lieutenant, Sept. 3, 1853: commander. July 16, 

 1862; captain. May 27, 1868; commodore, Oct. 3, 

 1874; and rear admiral. March 10. 1882; and was 

 retired Oct. 29. 1883. He was on sea service twen- 

 ty-three years and one month, and on shore or 

 other duty twelve years and nine months. His 

 first sea service was on the line of battle ship 

 Ohio while it was the flag ship in the Mediter- 

 ranean, 1838-*41, and in the next two years he 

 was attached to the receiving vessel Experiment, 

 the steamer Mississippi, the frigate Congress, and 

 the sloop Preble. In 1843-'44 he was at the Naval 

 School in Philadelphia. After spending two years 

 on the Coast Survey, he was ordered to the sloop 

 Decatur, on which he served in the Mexican War, 

 taking part in the capture of Tuspan and To- 

 basco. In the last year of the war he was on 

 the gunboat Petrel. 'During the interval between 

 the Mexican War and the civil war he was on 

 cruising and shore duty. In the spring and sum- 

 mer of 1861 he served in Chesapeake Bay, keep- 

 ing communication open, capturing and destroy- 

 ing Confederate vessels in the bay, and cutting 

 off supplies and communications of the enemy. 

 He also performed duty on shore at Fort Mon- 

 roe, and transported the troops across Hampton 

 creek before and after the battle of Big Bethel. 

 Immediately before the naval attack on Forts 

 Hatteras and Clarke, when a light-draught vessel 

 was needed to aid in landing troops, he took the 

 canal boat Fannie, secured boilers to her deck 

 by chains, joined the squadron, and in the face 

 of a heavy sea landed a force of officers and men. 

 One after another of his landing boats was 

 swamped or broken on the beach. By the time 

 he had put 300 men ashore the squadron was 

 compelled to put to sea. Lieut. Crosby made a 

 great show of his landing work, leading the Con- 

 federates to believe that the force was more than 

 2,000 strong, and then established a picket line 

 across the front of the enemy ? s batteries, thus 

 preventing a reconnoissance. On the following 

 day the squadron returned and captured the forts, 

 which were garrisoned by more than 700 men. 

 Lieut. Crosby then captured several blockade run- 

 ners who were ignorant of the victory. Soon 

 afterward he was prostrated with typhoid fever. 

 On his recovery he took the new gunboat Pinola 

 from Baltimore to Admiral Farragut's squadron 

 in the Gulf, capturing a schooner loaded with 

 cotton on the way, and commanded her when 

 she co-operated with the Itasca in breaking 

 through the chain barrier across the Mississippi. 

 Afterward he took part in the passage and bom- 

 bardment of the forts and the Chalmette batteries 

 and in the capture of New Orleans, and also in 

 the passage, bombardment, and repassage of the 

 batteries at Vicksburg. In 1863-'64 he was en- 

 gaged in several expeditions, and while on block- 

 ading duty destroyed two blockade runners and 

 captured five. In 1864-'65 he commanded the 

 Metacomet in the attack on Mobile, planned and 

 placed torpedo nets across Blakely river to catch 

 floating torpedoes sent down to destroy the fleet, 



and cleared the channel to the city by removing 

 140 torpedoes. After the war he was stationed 

 at several navy yards, and also commanded the 

 South Atlantic and Asiatic stations. 



Dabney, Walter David, lawyer, born in Albe- 

 marle County, Virginia, in 1853; died in Char- 

 lottesville, Va., March 12, 1899. He was graduated 

 at the law school of the University of Virginia 

 in 1875. In 1885 he was elected to the Legis- 

 lature, where he sat through four sessions, serv- 

 ing also on the Debt Commission and the Com- 

 mittees on Railroads and Internal Improvements 

 and on Finance. W T hile chairman of the first- 

 named committee he prepared, the manuscript of 

 Governmental Regulation of Railroads (1889), 

 which attracted the attention of Hon. Thomas 

 M. Cooley, then chairman of the United States 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, who solicited 

 Mr. Dabney to become the legal secretary to the 

 commission. He entered on this duty in 1890. 

 Two years later, in arguing a case in the United 

 States Court in Chicago, he won the friendship 

 of Judge Gresham, then presiding, and when 

 Judge Gresham became Secretary of State he 

 appointed Mr. Dabney solicitor of the depart- 

 ment. In 1895 Mr. Dabney retired from the State 

 Department to take the chair of Common and 

 Statute Law in the University of Virginia. 



Daly, Charles Patrick, jurist, born in New 

 York city, Oct. 31, 1816; died in North Haven, 

 near Sag Harbor, Long Island, Sept. 19, 1899. In 

 1839 he was admitted to the bar in his native 

 city, and in 1844 was appointed judge of Com- 

 mon Pleas, which office he held forty-two years. 

 During this period Judge Daly rendered many 

 important decisions, and, besides winning fame 

 as a lawyer and a judge, became widely known 

 as a scientist and a man of letters. For more 

 than a generation he was president of the Ameri- 

 can Geographical Society, and his annual ad- 

 dresses before that body were valuable contribu- 

 tions to geographical literature. His published 

 writings comprise The Judicial Tribunals of New 

 York, 1623-1846 (1855) ; A History of Naturaliza- 

 tion and of its Laws in Different Countries (1860) ; 

 Are the Southern Privateersmen Pirates? (1862) ; 

 Origin and History of Institutions for the Pro- 

 motion of Useful Arts by Industrial Exhibitions 

 (1864); When was the Drama Introduced into 

 America? (1864); The First Settlement of the 

 Jews in North America (1875); What we Know 

 of Maps and Map Making before the Time of 

 Mercator (1879) ; The Nature and History of the 

 Surrogates Court in New York State; Compari- 

 sons between Ancient and Modern Banking Sys- 

 tems. 



Daly, John Augustin, dramatist and man- 

 ager, born in Plymouth, N. C., July 20, 1838; 

 died in Paris, France, June 7, 1899. He was 

 the son of a retired officer of the British navy. 

 The family lived for a time in Norfolk, Va., dur- 

 ing Augustin's childhood, and on the death of his 

 father his mother removed to New York, where 

 the boy was apprenticed to a house furnisher. 

 While he was in this employ his attention was 

 attracted to the theater, and he and his brother, 

 ex-Judge Joseph F. Daly, became members of an 

 amateur dramatic society. When Augustin was 

 about sixteen he wrote a play in one act, which 

 he called A Bachelor's W 7 ardrobe, and took it 

 to William E. Burton, the comedian. Mr. Bur- 

 ton returned the manuscript with some compli- 

 mentary words, and the young aspirant for dra- 

 matic honors kept on writing and submitting 

 his works to actors, but without success. When 

 about twenty years of age young Daly took 

 employment as a story writer on the. Sunday 



